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  1. Aug 04, 2008
    • Daniel Stenberg's avatar
      - Fix by Tofu Linden: · 931fc45f
      Daniel Stenberg authored
        The symptom:
        * Users (usually, but not always) on 2-Wire routers and the Comcast service
        and a wired connection to their router would find that the second and
        subsequent DNS lookups from fresh processes using c-ares to resolve the same
        address would cause the process to never see a reply (it keeps polling for
        around 1m15s before giving up).
      
        The repro:
        * On such a machine (and yeah, it took us a lot of QA to find the systems
        that reproduce such a specific problem!), do 'ahost www.secondlife.com',
        then do it again.  The first process's lookup will work, subsequent lookups
        will time-out and fail.
      
        The cause:
        * init_id_key() was calling randomize_key() *before* it initialized
        key->state, meaning that the randomness generated by randomize_key() is
        immediately overwritten with deterministic values. (/dev/urandom was also
        being read incorrectly in the c-ares version we were using, but this was
        fixed in a later version.)
        * This makes the stream of generated query-IDs from any new c-ares process
        be an identical and predictable sequence of IDs.
        * This makes the 2-Wire's default built-in DNS server detect these queries
        as probable-duplicates and (erroneously) not respond at all.
      931fc45f
    • Yang Tse's avatar
      Update #144 · 6076c740
      Yang Tse authored
      Third version of the patch fixing a failure to chose a proper data
      type submitted to the mailing list 2008-08-04.
      6076c740
    • Yang Tse's avatar
      Autoconf 2.62 has changed the behaviour of the AC_AIX macro which we use. · b4fdccf8
      Yang Tse authored
      Prior versions of autoconf defined _ALL_SOURCE if _AIX was defined. But,
      autoconf 2.62 version of AC_AIX defines _ALL_SOURCE along with other four
      preprocessor symbols no matter if the system is AIX or not. To keep the
      traditional behaviour, as well as an uniform one, across autoconf versions
      AC_AIX is replaced with our own internal macro.
      b4fdccf8
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